Satan’s Steed and Topiary

DENVER, CO - June 13: A giant cow parsnip Saturday, June 13, 2015 at Rob Proctor's home on the 3000 block of West 46th Avenue in Denver, Colorado. Proctor has hundreds of potted flowers, plants and even a vegetable garden in his large backyard that he has been tending to for years. This years tour was to raise money for the Dumb Friends League. (Photo By Brent Lewis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Sounds like the name of a business, doesn’t it? “Satan’s Steed and Topiary”? If you follow horseracing—I don’t—then you already know that a horse named Justify won some pennant or something. I don’t care. I’m only mentioning it because I found out that the thoroughbred—that’s what you call these horses, right? Thoroughbreds? I don’t know…

Another Teen Wolf, Too

I’m not talking about the lackluster movie starring Jason Bateman, a sequel to the silly but fun TEEN WOLF, which starred Michael J. Fox. They tried to be clever and title the sequel TEEN WOLF, TOO after Fox refused to reprise his role from the first one (either because he just hated the movie or…

The Connection Between Werewolves and Silver

It’s one of those tropes that everyone knows: silver bullets kill werewolves. Only silver bullets. It’s as ubiquitous as the full moon thing. Yet like the belief that werewolves could only transform on nights when the moon is full, the connection between werewolves and silver is of modern vintage. Scouring the folklore of centuries past,…

David Harbour Would Walk Tall

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Buford Pusser Festival in Adamsville, Tennessee. While I would hope that everyone reading this article would recognize that name, Buford Pusser, I understand that, for some of you younger folks, that might not be the case. While I could never in a single article manage to encapsulate…

The Pulps Are Dead. Long Live The Pulps!

It must be tough to be a “Social Justice Warrior.” Note my use of quotation marks here. This is to designate the difference between any person concerned about social concerns—and frankly, social justice should be a primary concern of any compassionate, intelligent person in this day and age—and those cliché-ridden, self-important types who spend so…

THERIOPHOBIA: FEAR THE BEAST Chapter One

A so-called supermoon is seen at the start of a lunar eclipse above Lofer, Austrian province of Salzburg, in the early hours of Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. Supermoon, or perigee moon, is the name given when the full or new moon comes closest to the Earth making it appear bigger. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson))

As promised last week, peeps, here is the opening salvo of my original werewolf novel. Give it a paragraph or two. If you aren’t impressed, skip it. But I think you’re gonna dig it. All material is copyright 2018 by me. Feel free to share it ad nauseam, just please credit me as the author.…

“Werewolf” Identified

That sure didn’t take long. Weren’t they predicting it would take months? Somebody put a rush on this one. What was it, week before last that I was reporting on the mysterious animal shot and killed by a rancher in Montana, an animal that didn’t look like a regular wolf? It was spurring all sorts…

Kurtzman’s Stuff

I don’t even know if the auction is still going on. I think it is. But I’m covering it anyway because I want to share some of the cool goodies with you, the stuff that is, or was, available for online purchase at this site here. Like the picture above, for example. How sweet is…